Everything people ask before hiring

Yes. Every candidate clears a live English call with our team before they reach your inbox. We screen for fluency, accent clarity, and how they handle real conversation under pressure.

Most offshore arrangements run on pre-built rosters and resume screening. We build a role profile and scorecard with your hiring manager, then run every candidate through skills assessments, English fluency, references, role fit, culture fit, and our internal AI tools certification. The hire joins your team full-time, on your hours, as one of your own.

The discovery call takes 20 minutes. Three vetted candidates land in your inbox in 5 days. Most placements close within 14 days of the kickoff call, often sooner.

We place senior hires across operations, finance, engineering, marketing, customer support, and executive support, full-time and embedded into your team. If you’re hiring for a role that requires a specific industry background or technical skill set, the discovery call is the fastest way to confirm fit.

One all-in monthly rate per hire, covering talent, payroll, international compliance, and the support around the placement. It scales with the role and seniority. A comparable local senior hire runs $12-15K once you add payroll tax, benefits, and overhead. Your exact quote depends on the role and seniority; you get it on the 20-minute call.

We replace them at no cost. A new shortlist of three vetted candidates lands in 5 days, and the search resumes immediately. The replacement guarantee runs for as long as the placement is on your team.

Yes. 97% of Opus placements stay at least one year. Placements join your team full-time rather than as gig contractors, we vet for drive and culture fit alongside skills, and every placement carries a lifetime replacement guarantee with no time limit, so the retention risk sits with us, not with you.

Opus does. Every placement is employed through Opus, and we run payroll, benefits, and cross-border compliance on our side. You don’t need to open a foreign entity, register as an employer abroad, or manage international contractor paperwork. One monthly rate covers the placement and the legal layer around it.

Traditional staffing firms charge 25 to 35 percent of salary per placement, average 35 to 44 days to hire, and disappear once the offer is signed. We work on a single monthly rate, place inside 14 days, and stay close through onboarding and the full lifecycle of the hire. Our placements join your team full-time. They’re not contractors and they’re not handed off.

We replace them, no charge, no time limit. The lifetime guarantee means if someone leaves three months in or three years in, we backfill at our cost. You can also pivot mid-engagement. If the role itself was the problem, we’ll restart with a different profile.

A recruiter hands you a resume and bills 20-35% of first-year salary as a one-time placement fee. We hand you a working team member, employed by us, on a flat monthly fee. from $3,000/mo all-in instead of a $25-50K placement bill. We also handle the parts a recruiter walks away from: onboarding, payroll, HR, lifetime replacement.

Your first slate of 3 pre-vetted candidates lands within 5 days of this call. From there to day-one start is about 14 days end-to-end. Day 1 we scope the role with you, days 2-5 we shortlist from the 80k+ pool, days 6-11 you interview and pick, days 12-14 we run paperwork, equipment, and a tight onboarding so they hit the ground running.

No. We focus on premium talent that wants a career, not someone looking for a $6/hr task list. If you need a VA, we’ll point you to a partner. If you need a senior operator, marketer, engineer, or revenue person who’ll show up like a team member, that’s the lane we run.

Latin America runs the same business hours as the US (Mexico = Central Time, Colombia = Eastern Time, etc.). English fluency is non-negotiable in our vetting. Every candidate runs a live English call before they ever reach you. The people you’ll meet sound American on phones and Zoom.

Opus does. They work through Opus: we run payroll and benefits on our side, and you manage the work day-to-day. To your team they operate like any full-time teammate, not a freelancer you have to chase. We own the employment relationship and the cross-border legal layer so you do not have to set up an entity, a payroll provider, or a local HR function to make this work.

Day 1: kickoff call, role scoped, shortlist starts moving. Days 2-5: your shortlist of 3 vetted candidates lands. Days 6-11: you interview and pick. Days 12-14: paperwork, equipment, and day-one start. Weeks 3-4: onboarding inside your tools, shadowing, ramp to ~70% capacity. We do a 30-day check-in to course-correct. Most clients say it feels like a normal new-hire onboarding, just faster.

That’s exactly what Test Drive is for. One hire, three-month minimum, $3,000 a month. No quota to add more, no pressure to scale into a pod. Most people who hit month four upgrade to Scale Up on their own.

Opus is a nearshore hiring partner that has placed senior, full-time talent at 325+ US companies, with 97% of placements still in the role a year later. Every candidate is vetted on skills, a live English call, references, and culture fit before you meet a shortlist of three, and every placement carries a lifetime replacement guarantee at no extra cost.

Most recruiters bill a one-time placement fee of 20 to 35 percent of first-year salary, roughly $25,000 to $50,000 on a senior hire, and then walk away. Opus charges no percentage-of-salary placement fee. Instead you pay one flat all-in monthly rate that starts at $3,000 and runs $3,750 to $7,750 for senior roles, covering talent, payroll, compliance, and lifetime replacement.